Category: The Bizarre and Unexplained
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There has long been thought a link, at least in popular culture, and now it seems in certain clinical circles, between creativity and mental illness. It’s a spurious link, not exactly a fact at this point, but it does seem…
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“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t…
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Have you ever wondered what sound looks like? Most of us are keenly aware that you can’t see sound. We understand that sound is nothing more than complex patterns or waves of air compression, travelling over a distance and ultimately…
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Suicide and depression have been at the forefront of our minds of late. What with the tragic loss of beloved comedian and actor Robin Williams in early August. Fans the world over mourn not only for the loss, but also…
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Have you ever been called two-faced? It’s kind of a nasty thing to be labelled, as are most labels. Of course, it means that a person says one thing at one time, while saying the opposite at another, or more…
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Have you ever heard of D.B. Cooper? How about Dan Cooper? Have you heard of the successful hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 on November 24, 1971? An event deemed, even by the FBI, to have been the most…
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There’s been a lot of focus lately, on weird happenings in faraway lands. The middle-east, Russia, Asia, even Australia, which from a Can-Am-centric perspective (I’m Canadian) might provide an expanded view of our world, but there are plenty of weird…
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Scientists on an expedition in the Austrian Alps, stumble across a stunningly horrific scene in the glacial mountain tops. Dubbed Blood Glacier, a font of putrid blood-like liquid oozes from the wall of ice, flowing into the lower lands like…
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In 1803, a strange vessel supposedly washed ashore in Japan carrying a mysterious foreign woman, an unknown language, and a closely guarded box. More than two centuries later, the legend of Utsuro-bune has been interpreted as everything from folklore to…
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There’s a lot we don’t understand about this world of ours. And by ‘world’ I mean the cosmos, the universe…this reality we inhabit. There is stuff that happens that just doesn’t make any sense. Sometimes it’s easy to pass it…
